Phoenix Business Journal – by By Patrick O’Grady
A Prescott-based fund for startups is expanding its search for companies for potential investment, particularly in Arizona.
Agility Ventures has begun funding companies out of what eventually will be a $35 million pool, with an eye toward emerging-technology products ranging from data centers and solar operations to fee-based Internet [...]
Agility Ventures, a leader in the leasing and financing of early-stage technology and broadband companies, is pleased to announce the closing of their third investment fund. The Agility Fund lll will participate in a broad range of technology, investing in opportunities from broadband to medical devices.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the funding of a new Recovery Act broadband infrastructure project that will create jobs and provide rural residents in northern Mississippi access to improved service. Broadband access plays a critical role in expanding economic, health care, educational and public safety services in underserved rural [...]
by Alex Goldman
Bill MacNamara started Agility Ventures to provide loans to WISPs in 2004. When I spoke to him then, he thought that the business would soon be crowded, but that he’d have the advantage of being the first mover and another advantage in having run a WISP.
Six years later, tough times have ensured that [...]
Graeme Gibson could hardly contain his glee at what Washington regulators decided Thursday about technology that could soon pave another wireless path for the Internet.
“It gives us the opportunity, finally, to get through trees,” said Gibson, the president of Independence-based Computers & Tele-Comm Inc.
His company already uses one spectrum of radio waves to deliver WiMax [...]
Amid all the buzz tying big brands to WiMAX, a local communications company quietly setting up its version of the next-generation wireless technology may have slid under the radar.
“4G is now in Kansas City, and Sprint didn’t do it,” exulted Graeme Gibson, CEO of Independence-based Computers & Tele-Comm Inc.
Gibson estimated that the new broadband service, which [...]
[Herndon, VA]-The not-for-profit National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) today announced that its local members will soon have the opportunity to provide high-speed, fixed and mobile broadband Internet access to communities across the nation where homes, businesses, schools, hospitals, police and fire stations are least likely to be “wired.”
” The Administration and Congress have made the [...]